With Great Social Media Power Comes Great Responsibility

With Great Social Media Power Comes Great Responsibility

(This story has been updated with a newer idea here: A Plan for Social Media Sites (and users) to Give Back) Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Slashdot, Newsvine, NowPublic, Yahoo! Buzz.  Between these seven sites, traffic to a particular website can easily exceed 100,000,...
Tip’d: A Social Media Site on the Rise

Tip’d: A Social Media Site on the Rise

With so many open source variations of social media sites, there are new ones launched every day.  Most cater to a very small niche and rarely make it to 100 registered users. Tip’d is the exception.  After its official launch last week, it has already made some...
Call to Compile a List of Social Media Sites

Call to Compile a List of Social Media Sites

Hello friends!  I want to compile a list of social media websites.  All of them. We all know the basics – Digg, Mixx, Reddit, Propeller, etc. – but what about the others?  There are probably three hundred trillion of them, give or take, and I would like to...
The Future of Content in the Age of Information Overload

The Future of Content in the Age of Information Overload

The decline of newspaper popularity has been attributed to the rise of the internet and the proliferation of web-based content. With an extremely low barrier of entry and variable cost, the web allows anyone with a computer to become an independent publisher: As a...